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No. 342,043. Patented May 18, 1886.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 12,026, dated May 18, 1886.

Application filed December 14, 1885. Serial No. 185,573. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEoPoLn S. SAMUEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New ark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Childrens Diapers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference bein g had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon,'which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to increase the durability of the diaper, and to make it more effective in securing the desired results, the invention relating more especially to improvements in a device for which Letters Patent were issued to me on the 19th dayof May,

.A. I). 1885, and numbered 318,141.

The invention consists in the arrangements and combinations of parts, substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, embraced in twosheets, in which like letters indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a plan of the improved device. Fig. 2 is a section of the same, taken through line a:. Fig. 3 is a plan of the device detached from a certain outer ease or receptacle, and showing a paper envelope unfolded, to illustrate the arrangement of interior layers, folds, or plies of fabric. Fig. 4, Sheet 2, is a plan illustrating a modification;

and Fig. 5, a plan of the same with the upper layer or fold of the envelope removed.

In said drawings, a is a case, whichll intend to have used in lieu of or in connection with the ordinary diaper as the exterior covering or receptacle for the several plies or folds of materials forming the diaper proper. This case or receptacle is preferably made of rubber lined with muslin or cloth, or of other impervious matter, and has its edges turned, as at I) b in Figs. 1 and 2, to cover the edges of the several layers of the diaper proper, to hold and protect said edges and keep the layers in proper position.

The preferred construction of the diaper to be employed with the receptacle or case, but which may be used with the ordinary linen or cotton diaper or alone, is shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, in which 0 is an envelope of paper adapted to be folded at the seam or line (Z into a triangular shape, forming an inner fold, c, which engages or is adapted to lie against the person of the child, and an outer foldor ply, 0.", the inner fold being preferably perforated or provided with openings 0' c, as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or with a single larger perforation or opening, 0. (Shown in Fig. 4.) Between the foldsor plies of the envelope are or may be arranged, first, a piece or ply, e, of very cheap or coarse muslin or other textile fabric to give strength to the diaper, so that it will not tear when strain is brought to bear. Above or next to this is arranged an impervious sheet, f, of oiled paper or muslin or rubber or other fabric, then an absorbent, gsuch as sheetwadding or several sheets of tissue-paperto absorb urine or other liquid excretion. Over this is folded or laid theinner sheet or ply of the paper envelope, to intervene between the cotton or absorbent and the childs body, the pa per acting to prevent overheating and to separate the cotton-from the flesh. The openings allow the fluid excretions to pass to the absorbent.

The several plies are held in their proper relation by the folded envelope, and the dia per is thus in aproper condition for the market; but for use it is not essential that all the plies be in the relation shown, or indeed that they all be employed, as under some conditions changes or omissions may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. However, to secure the best results, I prefer that all the several plies set forth be present in the relation shown.

The diaper is preferably triangular, but may 4 be of any other suitable shape.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is- 1. The improved diaper herein described, consisting, essentially, of triangular sheets of paper, the corners of which are adapted to be tied around the infants body and between the legs, said sheets of paper having therebetween sheets of impervious matter.such as oiled paper-andabsorbing matter-*such as additional sheets of paper or waddingsaid parts being arranged and combined substantially as set forth.

2. The paper diaper for infants use, having 'or ply, and an impervious sheet or ply, said between the folds or plies thereof sheets of .parts being i'n combination substantially as absorbent materia1such as wadding or sheets set forth. of tissue-paper-a ply of textile fabric; and a a In testimony that I 5 sheet of impervious matter -siich.as oiled pahave hereunto set my hand this 12th day of per-said parts being arranged and combined December, 1885.

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3. A'folded paper diaper having one fold Witnesses: a ,or ply provided with perforations, and having CHARLES HQPELL, 10 between the folds absorbents, a textile sheet- OSCAR A. MICHEL.

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